Paper box for culture-tubes and similar articles.



I P. B. MYERS. PAPER BOX FOR CULTURE TUBES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES.APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 30. 1912.

1,021,998. PatentedApnZ, 1912.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

rnmnasn MYERS, or monnrs'rown, New JERSEY.

PAPER 150x ron CULTURE-TUBES AND sminnn ARTICLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Application filed 'January 30, 1912. Serial No. 674,277.

To all it may concern Beit known that I, PHINEAs B. MYnns,

a citizen of-the United States, residing at Morristown, county ofMorris, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved PaperBox for-Culture-Tubes and 'Similar Articles, of which the following is.same to be readily inserted and removed.

In the accompanying drawing! Figure 1 is a perspective view of a paperbox embodying my invention; Fig. 2 a vertical transverse sectionthereof; Fig. 3 a Ian of the box blank, and Fig. 4 a'plan 0' the insertblank.

The box is of oblong form and provided in proximity to one of its ends10 with a vertical transverse partition 11 thatdivides oil a pocket 12adapted to contain the swabs 13 that aresup'ported on the bottom 14 ofthe box. The larger compartment 15 formed between partition 11 and theother end 16 of the-box is provided with a false bottom 17, a to plate18 sunk below the upperedge of t e box, and a partition 19 arrangedbetween said top plate and the false bottom 17. Top 18 and partition-19are provided with a plurality of vertically alined apertures adapted toaccommodate the culture tubes 20. The lower ends of these tubes aresupported upon the false bottom 17 in such a way that the heads of thetubes are received within the space above top 18.- Owing to theconstruction described, the swabs as well as the tubes ex-. tendupwardly to aboutthe same level beneath the box cover 21, so as to bereadily accessible though the length of the swabs exceeds the length ofthe tubes, such difference in length being compensated for by theelevation of false bottom 17 above-box bottom 14.

The box is composed of two blanks only, the first blank going to formthe box proper together with artition 11, while the second blank goes toorm an insert embodying the vided with the upright scored lines a, b, c,d, e, f and 9 that divide the blank into 8 Patented Apr. 2, 1912.

false bottom 17 together with top 18 and partition 19. The box blankproper is proupright strips 22; 11; 23; 10; 24; 16; 25

and 26. Strips 10, 24 and 16 extend above and below the other stripsandare by horizontally scored lines h, z, j and is divided into upper flaps21, 27, 28, 29 and lower flaps 14, 30, 31 and'32. The blank is firstfolded on the upright lines in such a manner that partition 11 is placedinto parallelism to box ends 10, 16 and secured by its gluing tab' 22 tothe box-back 24, while box front 25 is secured to end piece 10 byfolded, tab 26. The top and bottom of the box are then formed by theupwardly and downwardly projecting flaps in the usual manner.

The insert blank is of oblong shape and provided with the scored linesZ, m, n, 0, p, g, 1' and s dividing the same into a series of parallelstrips 33, 34, 35, 1s, 3s, 17, 37, 19 and 38. Upon the scored lines theblank is so folded that the top 18, partition 19, false bottom 17 andatrue bottom 34' are brought into horizontal positions directly belowoneanother, while strip 35 constitutes one of the sides, strips 36, 33 whenoverlapped and pasted together jointly consti tute the other (side, andstrip 38 constitutes the tab that is glued to the inner: side of strip86.

The insert constitutes a complete structure in itself which may bereadily fitted 'into the main compartment 15 of the box when the deviceis to be assembled and used. During transportation or storage, the boxand insert .remain separated and each may be folded into a flat form soas to occupy

